DENISE KUMPFERSCHMIDT

New York-based artist Denise Kupferschmidt works with both acrylic and sumi ink in her paintings on paper and canvas. Across her compositions the female figure is portrayed in detail and fragments that are playful, suggestive and assertive. Exploring reduced poses and gestures familiar from advertising and fashion, the artist freely transposes and transforms these embodied motifs into her own gestural vocabulary. Shoes stride and strut without a body or care, torsos turn to meet the viewer, and bold color contrasts prevail.